TIme to take a trip back to the Skeleton’s Ravine to see what other goodies we can find, tucked away in the walls.  There should be a lot of resources (hopefully more than a few diamonds) and some scary stuff too.  Check out the video and let me know what you think I should do next.  Also, don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube – I am really close to reaching my next goal, which is having 100 channel subscribers.

Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language.  Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection.

This first WordPress cheat sheet comes from Ekin Ertac’s blog:

It covers a lot of the basics for your template and theme creation tags, and can also be downloaded at blog.ekinertac.com.

The WP Help Sheet is the next one I want to show you.  Rather than downloading a PDF, everything is stored on one single webpage you can bookmark and save for later.

Last, but not least, we have a cheat sheet for template tags to use in WordPress from DBS Interactive.  If you have a hard time remembering that one tag that pulls the data you need, this website is the perfect reference tool for the occasion.

Hope these three cheat sheets help out the next time you dive into WordPress template editing, and get a little lost.

Are you looking to a great bundle of web design and development treasures, for a fraction of the price? Then you need to go check out BundleHunt.  Right now they are offering everything from web hosting plans, premium WordPress themes, classy icons and more for a heavily discounted price.

BundleHunt is fantastic, because it does all of these things:

• Helps to Promote Great Design Tools, Software and Services
• Gives People BIG Discounts on Great Resources

I have yet to figure out how BundleHunt is making very much, but I am sure they have a business plan wrapped in there somewhere.  Currently you have 6 days left to get:

• Billings
• Flux
• 6 months of Site5 web hosting
• The Smashing Mag E-Book
• 1 Year Membership to SUBERNOVA
• Icon Dock (Icon Set)
• Designious (Vector Image Pack)
• 2 WordPress Themes from WP Bakery
• 100 HQ Photos from Photocase
• 100 Premium Files from Vandelay Premier
• 3 WordPress Themes from Mojo Themes
• Dry Icons
• 25% Off the Next Bundle

That is $1,400 worth of great and wonderful web design and development tools.  You only have to pay $49 for it all.

BundleHunt is a resource well worth bookmarking, and checking out.  You get tons a great things, for a really low discounted price.

htaccess Cheatsheet

mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet

htaccess cheatsheet from Google Groups

There you have it.  Know of anymore good htaccess tips or cheat sheets?  Leave me a link in the comments and I’ll go check them all out.

Looking for a few free icons to make your new website design really look good?  Look no further than our friends at Default Icon.  This repository of free icons is a nice place to grab a lot of free icons to use for your own needs.

This is definitely a slick collection of free icons to choose from.

You get black on white, or white on black versions of each icon shown on the web site.  Each icon comes in the png, gif, and eps file formats and range in the following sizes:

• 64×64
• 48×48
• 32×32
• 256×256
• 24×24
• 16×16
• 128×128

The icons have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0.  What does this mean for you?  It allows you redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to interacivemania.  Which this is not too much to ask for what you are getting in return.

To go check them out and download them, be sure to go visit defaulticon.com.

It is that time of the year where every news source out there gets so lax in creating content, they can only muster up the strength to put together a year in review for this, that or the other.  Never to be one to disappoint, I thought now would be the perfect time to join the masses and share with you your favorite things I have posted.

Here are the ten most popular stories, tips, articles and tutorials I published in 2009 on Mitchelaneous.com.

#10 – Instant Drama Sound Effect

My new favorite web site, when you need that instant sound effect action is DramaButton.com.  Once pushed, you get that duh duh DUHHHH that has always been a favorite for the old dramatic moments on your favorite old TV shows and movies.

• More Sound Effect Fun: Six and a Half Instant Sound Effect Sites to Keep Handy

#9 – Top 10 Horror Movie Villains

Since it is October, time to look at even more things that go bump in the night.  Growing up in the 80s to early 90s era, I had a lot of great horror villains to fighting me.  We might not have had Dracula or Frankenstein, but we did have Freddy and Jason.  So, to keep with the holiday spirit of the month, I decided to take a look at my top 10 horror villains of all time.

• More Top 10 – Top 10 Favorite Red Dwarf Moments

#8 – 10 Free Ways to Search for Files Online

Need to find a file fast?  Over the years, I have collected some of the best (and maybe not so best) free file search web sites out there.  Here are the ten best resources to search for a file online.

• More Free Stuff – Hundreds of Free Online Tools I’ve Reviewed

#7 – Ninja Entry Traffic Sign Rocks

When is a No Entry sign not a No Entry sign?  When it has dropped the smoke bomb and turned into a Ninja Entry traffic sign.

• More Oddness: The Green Ranger Morphed into a MMA Fighter

#6 – Need a Wiki? Top Alternatives to MediaWiki!

Looking to setup a new wiki, but don’t know which script you should pick up to do the dirty work?  Many might say that MediaWiki is the best and the most popular, since it is what is used to run Wikipedia.  However, there are some great alternative wiki scripts you might have (or might not have) even seen before.

• More CMS Help – 9 WordPress Alternatives

#5 – EMFF – Easily the Best Audio Player via Flash

The Easy Musicplayer For Flash, or otherwise known as EMFF, is in my opinion easily the best free audio player, built in flash.  I have been using it to provide a player on up to six of my latest shows on webhostingshow.com.

• More Web Dev Help – Best of the Blogging Scripts

#4 – Down Right Creepy Mario Wallpaper

Why is it that we are all kind of amused by making Nintendo’s favorite plumber, Mario, so darn creepy looking?  There have been some real oddities posted out there in the past that have put a new light on the overall wearing hero,  but this one might take the cake on being the creepiest thus far.

• More Desktop Decoration – All My Favorite Wallpapers I’ve Blogged About!

#3 – Decorate Your Desktop with Mushroom Icons!

Time to do another free desktop icon release!  This time around, I figured I would focus on Mario’s favorite treat, the mushrooms of the Mushroom kingdom.  It always kind of freaked me out that a power up was a decapitated head of one of the Mushroom Kingdom citizens.  What do you think Toad would say if he saw Mario eat a mushroom?  Would he be shocked?  Could be they are all cannibals anyways.

• Level Up! – Free Mega Man Desktop Icons!

#2 – Charge PS3 Controller on Your PC

As I shared with you yesterday, I purchased myself a PlayStation 3.  One of the first questions I had after taking it out of the box was, “How do I charge the controllers?”.  With my Wii, it uses rechargeable batteries, so that solution was a ‘bit easier.  it looks like the PS3 controllers though have no option to do that.

• More Video Game Fun – Free Video Game Based Desktop Icons!

#1 – Best of the Free Zombie Flash Games

Nothing can get better than beating up a few mindless zombies, right?  Put that together with some of the creative and cool flash games out there, and you my friend have a good time.  Here is my collection of some of the best free “zombie-related” flash games.

• More Flash Games – Best of the Free Ninja Flash Games

I hope you have enjoyed this year of Mitchelaneous fun, and hope 2010 brings in even more readers, visits, fun stories and more.  Happy New Year to you all!

EXTRA – Best Firefox Facts Posts of 2009!

How can you do the same?

How to Create a Google Docs Form

First step, would be to go to the Google Docs web site.  Now click on the button labeled, “Create new” and select Form.

That should take you to the Google Docs form builder, where you can easily create a web site form to use.  You can add any number of:

• text boxes (single line and paragraph sized)
• multiple choice
• check boxes
• choose from a list

There are a lot of ways you can customize your form to fit your needs.  Now once your form has been created, and you are happy with the results – you will want to embed it onto your web site.

How to Embed a Google Docs Form

Click on the button labeled, “More actions” and then choose Embed.

Once you do this, a window will pop up with the code you need to copy and paste into your own web site to make your form work.

What does the final result look like?  You can see it in action here:

• Web Hosts on Twitter
• Submit a Question to the Web Hosting Show Podcast!

When somebody sends you a result, it saves it into a spreadsheet you can check out from the Google Docs interface.  A pretty neat way to save yourself on some e-mail and save your hosting account on system resources a hosted script might take.

There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts.  How do you know which ones are the best?  Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.

Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.

Widgetbox – Tons of free widgets to put on your site.

LinkWithin – Post related stories and thumbnails on your web site.

ShoutMix – Free shoutbox/tagboard chat widget.

Wowzio – A lot of random widgets to choose from here.

SpringWidgets – Web site tools for blogs and social networks.

YourMinis – Widgets for your blog, website, start page, and desktop!

Monitter – Real time live Twitter watch and badge creator.

Widgipedia – Your ultimate web site widget resource.

Widgiland – A social network based around awesome widget production.

FeedWind – The free online feed widget.

Know of another great place to grab online widgets or tools for your web site?  Drop in a comment and let us know.  I’m looking for the best of the best in online tools, embeddable items or fun sidebar distractions.

Free file sharing sites are a dime a dozen out there, however every so often one catches my eye.  S4ve.as allows you to upload any tile of any size for free and get a link back to it that remains good for 24 hours.  So if you need to quickly send a big file to a friend, this offers itself up as a great solution.

Once you get the link, copy and past it anywhere and share it instantly via e-mail, web page, instant message, status update, tweet, etc. Links are automatically shortened using bit.ly.

The only catch that some people might not like is the link is only live for 24 hours, after that the files in question are removed.  However, if you need a quick way to share anything – S4ve.as is an option better than most.

What SimilarSites does is simple, it matches you up with web sites that are similar to the one you search for.  For example, when I searched for Mitchelaneous.com, it gave me results for Boing Boing and Lifehacker.  When I searched for WebHostingShow.com, it gave me hosting sites like WebHostingStuff.com and RateMyHost.com.  The service works very well, and might also help you judge if you are targeting your own web site in the right ways. 

SimilarSites also has add-ons you can download and use in both Firefox or Internet Explorer.  That gives you two more ways to get more out of this excellent service. 

Overall SimilarSites is a fun service to check out, just in case you want another web site like just like this one, or another favorite of yours around the Web.